How many copies has Dark Deity sold?

indielist estimates Dark Deity has sold between 125,088 and 291,872 units (median 208,480), derived from its 2,606 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Dark Deity?

Dark Deity was developed by Sword & Axe LLC and published by indie.io.

Who published Dark Deity?

Dark Deity was published by indie.io, developed by Sword & Axe LLC. See indie.io's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Dark Deity released?

Dark Deity was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Dark Deity have on Steam?

Dark Deity has 2,606 Steam reviews, of which 72% are positive.

Is Dark Deity worth playing?

Steam players rate Dark Deity 72% positive across 2,606 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Dark Deity

Jun 15, 2021 Adventure $24.99

Developer Sword & Axe LLC Publisher indie.io

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game Dark Deity launched in 2021 from developer sword-axe-llc and publisher indie-io. It has 3,027 Steam reviews with 72% positive sentiment, a mixed-to-positive signal, and an initial price of $24.99.

Dark Deity is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Sword & Axe LLC and published by indie.io. On Steam it has gathered 2,606 player reviews, 72% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Sword & Axe LLC with publisher indie.io is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 125,000 to 292,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dark Deity can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,606

Positive

72%

Steam appid

1374840

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

125K to 292K

units (median: 208K)

≈ $1.8M to $4.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

125K median 292K

+ How is this calculated?

2,606 reviews × NB(80) = 208,480 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_72%	0
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dark Deity at roughly 125,000 to 292,000 copies, with a median around 208,000, derived from its 2,606 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

9 observed days · window low $3.74

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-07-15.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Steam reference -85%

$3.74 Buy
Humble Store -80%

$5.00 Buy
Fanatical -10%

$23.60 Buy
Green Man Gaming

$24.99 Buy
GOG.com

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Platforms

windows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dark Deity sold?: indielist estimates Dark Deity has sold between 125,088 and 291,872 units (median 208,480), derived from its 2,606 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Dark Deity?: Dark Deity was developed by Sword & Axe LLC and published by indie.io.
Who published Dark Deity?: Dark Deity was published by indie.io, developed by Sword & Axe LLC. See indie.io's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Dark Deity released?: Dark Deity was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Dark Deity have on Steam?: Dark Deity has 2,606 Steam reviews, of which 72% are positive.
Is Dark Deity worth playing?: Steam players rate Dark Deity 72% positive across 2,606 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Dark Deity can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Sword & Axe LLC's other releases and indie.io's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dark Deity sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dark Deity page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.